We would like to invite you to the Autumn School: Catalysis for Europe’s Green transition: Advancing industrial catalysis by synergy of experiments and supercomputing simulations, 21-24 November 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The school is planned as a physical event, although some speakers will give their talks online.  The course is devoted to the field of catalysis and its key role in energy and materials conversion processes.  The programme covers catalysis foundations as well as computational techniques that are of key importance to advance the field academically and industrially.

The outcomes from this training will include knowledge transfer on the following topics:

• The role of hydrogen as an energy vector of the future
• What is a catalyst and how does it work
• The key importance of catalysis in the green energy cycle (generation-storage-reuse)
• The further needs and demands on the pathway to a clean climate friendly circular economy
• What are the main computational techniques in aid of research on catalytic reactivity and properties of materials
• Key application of computational techniques to reveal pathways for catalytic reactions
• The need of high performance computing and its challenges in related to the development and performance of computational software

For more information about the school, please visit the Autumn School: Catalysis for Europe’s Green transition webpage on the NCSA Bulgaria website.

Target audience: Junior as well as established researchers from Central and Eastern Europe (and associated areas) with Materials background who have not previously specialised in the field of catalysis.

Programme: see the attached pdf file.

Fee: Participation is free, but please register only if you plan to attend the school.

Registration: Please fill out the registration form here.

Registration deadline: November 16, 2022

Organisers: A joint effort by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, HITMOBIL Center of Competence at IEES-BAS, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, Daresbury Laboratory at the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK, and NCSA, Bulgaria under the partnerships of Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe.

Please feel free to share this registration link and information with your friends and colleagues who might be interested.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us @ [email protected]  

After more than two years of COVID-19 restriction, we look forward to welcoming you personally to the Autumn School: Catalysis for Europe’s Green transition!

Yours faithfully,

Georgi Prangov

On behalf of the Organising Committee